The Jim Henson Company and Music.Film Recordings have released a new soundtrack album for the sci-fi series Farscape. The album features selections of the show’s original music from the show composed by Subvision and Guy Gross (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, A Few Best Men), including a few unreleased tracks from the series’ cutting room floor. The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon. A vinyl version, which features artwork, a collectable poster insert, by illustrator Joe Corroney, including a collectible poster insert, and liner notes with new interviews with the composers, creator Rockne O’Bannon and executive producer Brian Henson, is available exclusively at Barnes & Noble.
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Soundtrack Album for Netflix’s ‘Ultraman’ Released
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the Netflix anime series Ultraman. The album features selections of the show’s original score composed by Nobuko Toda (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater) & Kazuma Jinnouchi (Halo 5: Guardians). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples. Ultraman is directed by Kenji Kamiyama & Shinji Aramaki and stars Ryohei Kimura, Takuya Eguchi, Megumi Han and Hideyuki Tanaka. The series follows young Shinjiro as he must don the metallic Ultraman Suit to become Ultraman – like his father before him.
The CW’s ‘Pandora’ to Feature Music by Joe Kraemer & Penka Kouneva
Joe Kraemer (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Jack Reacher, The Way of the Gun) and Penka Kouneva (Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Midnight Movie) are the composers of the new CW drama Pandora. The show is created by Mark A. Altman and stars Priscilla Quintana, Oliver Dench, Raechelle Banno, John Harlan Kim, Ben Radcliffe, Banita Sandhu, Martin Bobb-Semple and Noah Huntley. The sci-fi action series follows a resourceful young woman who has lost everything but finds a new life at Earth’s Space Training Academy where she and her friends learn to defend the Galaxy from threats, both alien and human.
Mark Korven Tapped as Composer of AMC’s ‘The Terror: Infamy’
Mark Korven (The Witch, Cube, Our House, Awakening the Zodiac) has been tapped as the new composer of the AMC anthology series The Terror. The show’s World War II-set second season, The Terror: Infamy, is created by Alexander Woo (True Blood) & Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla) and centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
Matthew Herbert Scoring Sky’s ‘Temple’
Matthew Herbert (Disobedience, A Fantastic Woman, Gloria Bell) is scoring the upcoming Sky original series Temple. The show is developed by Mark O’Rowe (Boy A, Broken) based on the Norwegian series Valkyrien and stars Mark Strong, Carice van Houten and Daniel Mays. The 8-part comic thriller is set in the secret world beneath London, where an illegal clinic has been set up in an abandoned subterranean network of tunnels and follows a surgeon driven by personal tragedy to treat anyone who is willing to pay for medical help outside the system.
Soundtrack Album for ITV’s ‘Vera’ Announced
Silva Screen Records has announced the first soundtrack album for the ITV original series Vera. The album features selections of the original music from the show composed by Ben Bartlett (Walking with Dinosaurs, The Tunnel, The Loch, Stan Lee’s Lucky Man, The Mark of Cain). The soundtrack will be released digitally on August 9, 2019 and physically a few weeks later. Click here to download the album and visit Amazon to order the CD version as an import. Vera is created by Ann Cleeves and stars Brenda Blethyn, Kenny Doughty, Ibinabo Jack, Jon Morrison, Riley Jones, Paul Kaye and Steve Evets. The series follows the eccentric but brilliant DCI Vera Stanhope and her team as they face a series of captivating murder mysteries set against the breathtaking Northumberland landscape.
Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 7, 2019)
Premiering tonight is the National Geographic documentary Apollo: Missions to the Moon directed by Tom Jennings about the United States’ remarkable journey to land on the Moon before 1970. The film’s original music is composed James Everingham for Bleeding Fingers Music and produced by Hans Zimmer & Russell Emanuel. Milan Records has released a soundtrack album featuring Everingham’s score. Check out our previous news article for the full album details.
Also premiering tonight is the CNN docu-series The Movies executive produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman & Mark Herzog and featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg, Julia Roberts, Ron Howard, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, among others. Blake Neely (Arrow, The Flash, Riverdale, Into the West, Life As We Know It) & Nathaniel Blume (The Seventies, The Eighties, Deception) have composed the show’s original music. Visit the official show website for more information about the documentary, which explores American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution.
Tyler Bates Scoring Genndy Tartakovsky’s Adult Swim Series ‘Primal’
Composer Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool 2, John Wick, 300, The Punisher, Watchmen) is reteaming with Genndy Tartakovsky on the upcoming Adult Swim animated series Primal. he is co-scoring the project with Joanne Higginbottom. The show revolves around a caveman at the dawn of evolution and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction who become the only hope of survival in a violent, primordial world. Tartakovsky has created the series and is also executive producing the Cartoon Network Studios and Studio La Cachette production.
‘Apollo: Missions to the Moon’ Soundtrack Details
Milan Records has released a soundtrack album for the National Geographic documentary Apollo: Missions to the Moon. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Everingham for Bleeding Fingers Music and produced by Hans Zimmer & Russell Emanuel. The soundtrack is being released digitally and physically today. Click here to download the album and visit Amazon to order the CD version. Apollo: Missions to the Moon is directed by Tom Jennings (Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes, Diana: In Her Own Words) and recounts the United States’ remarkable journey to land on the Moon before 1970. The movie covers the Apollo Space Program with raw media, eschewing narration for footage and audio of the program, including samples of never-before-audio pulled from over 800 hours of recordings and Apollo black box recordings.
‘I Love You, Now Die’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Little Twig Records has announced a soundtrack album for the HBO documentary I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ian Hultquist (Assassination Nation, A-X-L, Animals, My Blind Brother, The Gospel According to André). The soundtrack will be released digitally on July 12, 2019 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon and iTunes. I Love You, Now Die is directed by Erin Lee Carr who previously collaborated with Hultquist on numerous projects, including Thought Crimes: the Case of the Cannibal Cop, Mommy Dead & Dearest, and this year’s At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (co-scored by Drum & Lace).